Artist Statement:
I use film and video as poetic tools for exploring the human condition, incorporating subjects as close as my back porch and as far away as the planet Mars. My recent work in 16mm - Porch Film: 76 Day St. Apt. #2 (2004), Windows onto Montebello Road (2009), and the forthcoming Backyards on Saint Rose - depicts domestic space as a site for individualized transformative experiences. My use of everyday sounds in these works provides both a supplementary emotional register and a contextual grounding in a larger personal, social, or political moment. My current video work investigates the effect of mediated experience on personal identity, memory, and history. By appropriating from personal and public archives I often recast history through a subjective lens, with an eye toward the human capacity for malevolence. Underlying all my work is the use of autobiography as a strategy for examining the larger issues that both intrigue and challenge me.
I use film and video as poetic tools for exploring the human condition, incorporating subjects as close as my back porch and as far away as the planet Mars. My recent work in 16mm - Porch Film: 76 Day St. Apt. #2 (2004), Windows onto Montebello Road (2009), and the forthcoming Backyards on Saint Rose - depicts domestic space as a site for individualized transformative experiences. My use of everyday sounds in these works provides both a supplementary emotional register and a contextual grounding in a larger personal, social, or political moment. My current video work investigates the effect of mediated experience on personal identity, memory, and history. By appropriating from personal and public archives I often recast history through a subjective lens, with an eye toward the human capacity for malevolence. Underlying all my work is the use of autobiography as a strategy for examining the larger issues that both intrigue and challenge me.
